RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)The statutes are on the books in those libraries and apply to blockchains. The question is to what extent these other online precedents are analogous when it comes to interpreting how they are applied. You merely assumed that they are entirely apropos, but there are obvious differences you neglected which I had to point out to you. You certainly can't assume the differences will mean blockchain operators will be treated more leniently rather than more stringently.There's also a qu ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)I'm writing about very real laws in very real jurisdictions in which Bitcoin miners, pools, noderunners, and wallets operate. Real laws in real jurisdictions are quite far from being "speculative boogeymen." There are, today, libraries full of an extremely wide variety of laws that apply to an extremely wide variety of arbitrary content.In all the technology examples you list, it is possible for the operators to *delete* data once they have obtained knowledge that it exists, witho ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)I'm writing about very real laws in very real jurisdictions in which Bitcoin miners, pools, noderunners, and wallets operate. Real laws in real jurisdictions are quite far from being "speculative boogeymen." There are, today, libraries full of an extremely wide variety of laws that apply to an extremely wide variety of arbitrary content.In all the technology examples you list, it is possible for the operators to *delete* data once they have obtained knowledge that it exists, witho ...